The inaugural function will be held at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre at 10:30am.

The laptop branded as “Doel” with four different models priced at Tk 10,000, Tk 13,500, Tk 22,000 and Tk 26,000 are made by the state-run Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (TSS) in collaboration with 2M Corporation Ltd, Dhaka and TFT Technology, Penang, Malaysia.

A telecommunication ministry official said the date for marketing of the laptop has not been fixed. “At first, several thousand laptops would be supplied to various government institutions for public services,” the official said.

He also said in future, the government has a plan to export the laptops after meeting the local demand.

Originally Posted by Dilscoop
How much of it is ACTUALLY made in Bangladesh?

TSS managing director Mohammad Ismail said that the laptops are made up of more than 150 components, 60 percent of which, including the motherboard, would be manufactured in the factory.

The Primary model boasts a 10-inch LCD while the Advanced model has a 14-inch WXGA LED Backlight screen. Only the Primary model has an android operating system, as all others use Linux. The Advanced laptop has a Pentium processor, the Primary has a VIA processor, while the Basic and Standard models have Atom processors.

The inaugural function will be held at the Bangabandhu International Conference Centre at 10:30am.

The laptop branded as “Doel” with four different models priced at Tk 10,000, Tk 13,500, Tk 22,000 and Tk 26,000 are made by the state-run Telephone Shilpa Sangstha (TSS) in collaboration with 2M Corporation Ltd, Dhaka and TFT Technology, Penang, Malaysia.

A telecommunication ministry official said the date for marketing of the laptop has not been fixed. “At first, several thousand laptops would be supplied to various government institutions for public services,” the official said.

He also said in future, the government has a plan to export the laptops after meeting the local demand.

It's neither a technological breakthrough, nor a cheap laptop. Well I will appreciate the effort, if it reaches the students in mass scale at an affordable price. Would you buy a TSS android with pentium processor with 27000? It's not a cheap price. One can buy a better laptop or reputed brand with this price.

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BANFAN - it clearly states only the cheapest model(tk.10000) will come with android(I imagine it being basically a netbook)....whereas the tk27000 model(14") will have a i3 processor and Linux.

At that price it is without doubt a bargain in Bangladesh.

The fact remains, no one with any sense will touch the 1st version, hell probably not even the 2nd version of this product, while TSS sorts out bugs/manufacturing issues and what not. But it is without doubt a very good initiative. We have to start somewhere....

BASSMAN - I seriously doubt it'll be on sale for the general public by then, and even if it is...why would you want to purchase something so new? Think of it as Chinese cars....sure they're cars, but I'm not sure I'd be spending money on one yet.

PC prices are very competitive in Bangladesh, but I don't think laptop prices are as good...Best Buy/Currys/Ebay easily have better deals for bottom and high end stuff.

Nasif - meh...Samsung lawyers couldn't tell the difference between their tablet and the iPad in court...if it works for them, why not us :d

BASSMAN just got his knickers up in a wad as they say. The generic question about laptop choice will always garner billion and one opinions by the geekified many that inhabit this forum. Information about the DOEL has been hard to come by other than the propaganda from mohan jononeti launching the product - not many people know the details and the paucity of responses to your questions is a direct function of that. Had your name be Dassmoi instead of Bassman, that wouldn't have helped in this case at all - other than iDumb coming in to make a snide comment.

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The Primary and Basic models look like netbooks! The Primary model is basically a Raspberry Pi with a screen , keyboard and trackpad. The only models to go for from the list are the Basic and the New Advanced model. Rest are just meh.

The New advanced model has a Sandybridge i3, has a H55 chipet motherboard, has built-in HD3000 gfx and 802.11n WiFi capability - which are all decent. Hard drive should have been a 500GB HDD or a SSD RAM should have been 4GB DDR3 - DDR3 is cheap as chips nowdays. LAN should have been Gigabit ... I thought the H55 would have provided Gigabit LAN by default ?

Still, £300 ( Tk 30k )for a laptop is not bad but still kind of pricey for BD